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Margaret Kirk

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Margaret Kirk writes ‘Highland Noir’ Scottish crime fiction, set in and around her home town of Inverness.

Her debut novel, Shadow Man, won the Good Housekeeping First Novel Competition in 2016. Described as ‘a harrowing and horrific game of consequences’ by Val McDermid, it was published in 2017 by Orion.

Margaret is also the writer of several award-winning short stories, including The Seal Singers, which has been published in translation in Germany, and Switzerland.

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Bring On The Books! Coming soon: Reviews

A couple of serendipitous things came together to nudge this part of the blog into being – firstly, as I’ve been writing a mysterious New Thing, I’ve been giving myself a little time to catch up on my reading. And though I’ve been feeling guilty about not posting here as regularly as I should, I like to wait until I have something new/noteworthy to talk about.

But as it happens, I’ve been lucky en

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